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It’s time to tell us what you want, ministers say, as European press tears into PM.
63% of people say their view of Britain has changed since it left the EU, and of those, 95% say it has changed for the worse.
'The situation has been deteriorating. It is very difficult to have the necessary trust that could justify a new date'
When I'm in France, the reactions I get from French people range from complete indifference to Brexit, through to slight feelings of sadness and pity at the UK’s self-imposed economic and social harm. In Italy, the sadness over Brexit is even more marked, and in this video, I’ll be looking at an article in Italian newspaper La Repubblica this week about the latest impact of Brexit.
The latest twists in the Westminster Brexit drama are gripping Europe's newspapers.
Leo Varadkar, Ireland’s deputy prime minister, has accused the British government of risking the break-up of the United Kingdom and making “shocking” blunders over Northern Ireland.
Britain is facing a rough road that holds little prospect of promised glory days.
EU must continue to monitor and ensure that the British hold up their side of the bargain.
Europe's press has largely reported Boris Johnson's visit to Luxembourg as a humiliation for the British prime minister – with many outlets focusing on him skipping a press conference because of protesters.
"Brexit was the first time a nation imposed economic sanctions on itself", one viewer commented.
Sigmar Gabriel says Germany cannot ‘raise drawbridge’ on UK’s young people who want to remain EU citizens.
INCREASING support for independence, the upcoming Holyrood election and Scotland’s removal from the EU are the focus of several news stories across Germany this morning.
The UK has had little influence in Germany’s upcoming election, experts say, after the country ‘shrugged its shoulders and moved on’ from Brexit. / "Germans generally think Brexit is a bit mad, they generally wish that Britain was still in the European Union, but they shrug their shoulders and they’ve moved on."
Newspapers have splashed the UK’s struggle for fuel across their front pages as the Army mobilises to ensure petrol pumps don’t go dry.
French finance minister Bruno Le Maire has told the BBC that leaving the single market after Brexit has made the supply chain crisis worse for the UK.
‘Look at what’s going on with store shelves’ and ‘the restocking of fuel,’ says Thierry Breton.
Brexit as an ideological project has stripped the government of any sense of basic pragmatism.
The words for chaotic instability might change from country to country but the reaction is uniform across Europe to Britain’s politics.
Analysts in Europe say Britain committed “Anglo-Saxon suicide” when it voted for Brexit.
The latest twist was likened to a TV saga, and no one knows what the ending will be.
EU’s seizing of initiative and avoidance of Theresa May’s ‘trap’ hailed by foreign press
Leaders say Europe again has a friend in the White House but differences with US will not disappear.
This week, I saw a brilliant report about the UK 4 years after Brexit, on Franco-German channel Arte. I thought subscribers to Truth To Power would find it fascinating to get an objective insight into 4 years of Brexit from a French-speaking news outlet without any UK political skin in the game.
Irish newspapers are resoundingly unimpressed with Boris Johnson's proposed Brexit deal and many commentators in Europe are similarly dismissive of it.